January 9, 2013

COLUMBIA CITY â€” Whitley County Consolidated School District Board of School Trustees heard from WCCS superintendent Dr. Pat Oâ€™Connor on Monday regarding the future of school safety in the district.

This discussion came in light of the December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. After meeting with local law enforcement, Oâ€™Connor said these partnerships will be the engine that drives school safety.

January 9, 2013

CHURUBUSCO â€” Two vacant board seats were filled at Smith-Green Community Schools Board of School Trustees meeting Monday.

Dean Geiger, of Churubusco, was selected to be the District 1 member on the schoolâ€™s board. Luke Gross, of Churubusco, was chosen to fill the District 2 position.

Geiger is an engineer at Eaton in Auburn. He graduated from Churubusco High School with the Class of 1989. He holds a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. Geiger has three children currently in the SGCS school system.

January 9, 2013

Ralph â€śWhitieâ€ť Paul Huett, 90, of West Lafayette and formerly of Fort Wayne, passed away at 10:19 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, at the Indiana Veteranâ€™s Home.
Born Nov. 4, 1922, in Fort Wayne, he was the son of Frederick and Irmgard (Stephan) Huett.
Survivors include his two daughters, a son and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother.
Visitation will be held Thursday from 9 to 10 a.m. at DeMoney-Grimes Countryside Park Funeral Home, 600 Countryside Dr., Columbia City.

January 8th

January 8, 2013

COLUMBIA CITY â€” â€śWe know everything about each other.â€ť A statement that is typically exaggerated is quite realistic for a trio of Columbia Cityâ€™s boys basketball players.

A group that knows each other so well, in fact, that all three of the Eaglesâ€™ leading hoopsters are going to the same college to play basketball. Derek Hinen, Daniel Woll and Drew Benedict have been playing basketball together since they were in third grade â€” and they arenâ€™t sick of each other yet. All three have signed with Huntington University, just 20 miles south on Ind. 9, to play basketball next season.

January 8, 2013

COLUMBIA CITY â€” Dakota Wappes never imagined his time spent with the late Bob Brittain, a debate coach at Columbia City High School, would take him to Berlin, Germany.

Wappes, a sophomore at Ball State University, is a part of the schoolâ€™s debate team and a 2011 graduate of CCHS. For the first time, he ventured outside the U.S. and competed with his teammates from BSU in a debate challenge that encompassed some 400 schools from 82 different countries.